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The Right to Feel theWind in your hair

What we do.

Sheffield is such a beautiful, friendly and green city, and Cycling Without Age Sheffield’s aim is to help everyone get ‘out and about’ riding our comfy tri-bikes! We’re a group of volunteers who love to cycle and chat, and believe passionately that time in nature can support a higher quality of life for older and less mobile people.

We use electric assisted tri-bikes which have room for two passengers. We usually visit one of the local parks, favourites include the Botanical Gardens, Endcliffe Park and Graves Park. Cycling in parks provides opportunities to touch flowers, feel the wind in your hair, laugh at ducks, chat with other park visitors and find unexpected sculptures. We enjoy the seasons, from low winter sunshine and tree silhouettes to the summer scent of roses. Each ride takes up to an hour. We carefully plan our route to the park, keeping to back roads and cycle paths as far as possible. 

Most of our rides are regular weekly slots with care homes and monthly slots with the Age UK Wellbeing Centres. We have two bases, one in Sharrow and one in Lowedges. If you would like to find out more about arranging rides for passengers please see this page.

All our volunteer “pilots” are fully trained in using the tri-bikes, Rhubarb, Pearl and Daisy. We are fully insured. We do not charge for our service.

We are part of a global movement, founded in Copenhagen in 2012! There are over 1200 cities and towns around the world where Cycling Without Age groups take older people out on jaunts. The UK network is lively and growing.